Habitat loss confounds climate change impacts

CR Pyke - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Biological reserves are set aside to conserve species in dynamic, human‐dominated
landscapes; however, most reserve systems protect only small, potentially biased samples …

Mapping conservation strategies under a changing climate

RT Belote, MS Dietz, PS McKinley, AA Carlson… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The current and expected consequences of global change challenge traditional strategies
for conserving biodiversity and the ecological patterns and processes that govern such …

Climate change likely to reshape vegetation in North America's largest protected areas

L Holsinger, SA Parks, MA Parisien… - … Science and Practice, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change poses a serious threat to biodiversity and unprecedented challenges to the
preservation and protection of natural landscapes. We evaluated how climate change might …

Assessing the impacts of projected climate change on biodiversity in the protected areas of western North America

JGR Langdon, JJ Lawler - Ecosphere, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Protected areas are a fundamental component of many conservation strategies. They
safeguard some of the best examples of unfragmented natural landscapes in many regions …

Projected wetland densities under climate change: habitat loss but little geographic shift in conservation strategy

HR Sofaer, SK Skagen, JJ Barsugli… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change poses major challenges for conservation and management because it alters
the area, quality, and spatial distribution of habitat for natural populations. To assess …

Global climate change and natural‐area protection: management responses and research directions

PN Halpin - Ecological Applications, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
During the past decade, our understanding of the potential risks that climate change poses
to ecosystem function and natural‐area protection has increased. Simulation studies of …

[HTML][HTML] Land use compounds habitat losses under projected climate change in a threatened California ecosystem

EC Riordan, PW Rundel - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Given the rapidly growing human population in mediterranean-climate systems, land use
may pose a more immediate threat to biodiversity than climate change this century, yet few …

[HTML][HTML] Climate-biome envelope shifts create enormous challenges and novel opportunities for conservation

R Toot, LE Frelich, EE Butler, PB Reich - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Research Highlights: We modeled climate-biome envelopes at high resolution in the
Western Great Lakes Region for recent and future time-periods. The projected biome shifts …

Potential relocation of climatic environments suggests high rates of climate displacement within the North American protection network

E Batllori, MA Parisien, SA Parks… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Ongoing climate change may undermine the effectiveness of protected area networks in
preserving the set of biotic components and ecological processes they harbor, thereby …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …